I think this is very much Corbyn's position, if you look at his history, although I think you are putting a particular spin on it I don't fully get. His take on international politics is very much "bash the West" cf. Milne's infamous column "Can the US ever be defeated?"
I know nowt about Novara beyond seeing them argue with people I like - what' their positioning with regard to Russia, Putin etc?
It's sort of fun watching this lot all skip around with Owen Jones on Twitter, being more Corbyn and more righteous than each other in a great feedback loop with occasional dissonance...
As far as I know Galloway has not been on Novara but Bastani went on his show and was then taken to pieces on social media for it - mainly for GG’s sexist support of the wikileaks rapey guy.
Also not Assadists afaik. They’ve had some Kurds and Syrians on who seemed on the money to me but it’s not something I know a lot about.
But re: Corbyn - he is very selective about which bits of the UK ruling class he will attack. Bankers and tories are bad. Business and cops are good. The army, the royal family are not really mentioned.
i honestly don't care. they aren't a proletarian vanguard in any sense, even in the non-leninist sense.
i can guarantee u lot that ash sarkar wasn't listening to mak10 on rinse in 2005. that's the funniest thing about novara, them getting behind grime after its been dead for ever.
I read somewhere on their site something like: "Donate to help us take on the Establishment!" What will it be like if there's a Corbyn government? Who will be the Oppositional-Oedipal Daddy Figure then?