In the United States, they were involved in the organization of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and often discussed anarchism at home.
He attended public high school in New Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated from City College of New York.
[2] Bluestein and Cohen, a visual artist, were anarchist activists and together traveled to Spain during its Civil War to support the antifascist Republicans[2] in 1937.
[3] Based in Barcelona and Catalonia, Bluestein reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Company and served as an information officer for the Republican-aligned, anarcho-syndicalist labor union Confederación Nacional del Trabajo.
Bluestein participated in the Libertarian Book Club and edited the 1983 memorial volume, Fighters for Anarchism: Mollie Steimer and Senya Fleshin.