After a tense shadow cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr Corbyn – a vice-president of the Stop the War pressure group – made clear he would not support any bombing.
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“I hope that when the choice comes people will indicate that this is the right thing for Britain to do”.
Conservatives have been working to drum up Labour support.
He told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show: “We’ll have a further discussion on this”.
“There will be resignations among senior members of the shadow cabinet over this”, an unnamed senior shadow cabinet member told the BBC. The shadow cabinet is due to meet tomorrow ahead of a potentially explosive gathering of the Parliamentary Party in the evening.
He said: “This isn’t about the internal politics of the Labour Party”.
He said: “I don’t think it will solve the problem that’s there”.
“What needs to happen so badly in Syria is for there to be a transition to a government that can represent all of the country”, he said.
But since Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing 130 people in Paris, some lawmakers who were reluctant to launch new strikes in Syria have increasingly felt action was needed to protect Britain from such attacks.
The Labour Party leader remained defiant throughout the interview.
“If those Westminster bubble-dwellers who hanker back to the politics of the past can not show the elected leader – and those who voted for him – more respect, then they are writing their own political obituaries”.
Mr Cameron said “we face a fundamental threat to our security” and could not wait for a political solution, and that doing nothing “could make the United Kingdom more of a target for Isil attacks”.
Asked if the whipping position would be a collective decision by the shadow cabinet, Mr Corbyn said: “It is the leader who decides”.
Jerem Corbyn is on the verge of demanding that his MPs oppose military action in Syria, in a move that would provoke an unprecedented crisis in Labour’s history and force shadow ministers to resign.
Dismissing suggestions of a coup attempt if Labour perform poorly in this week’s Oldham by-election, he said: “I’m not going anywhere”. “I think it actually will bring Britain and France and the world together in defence of our values and recognising that we will never let these people beat us, indeed we will come together and make sure that we beat them”.
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson urged the veteran left winger not to force members to vote against air strikes to avoid a damaging public split.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said the government does not yet have enough votes from MPs to back the extension of air strikes into Syria as well as Iraq.
Right-wing Labour MP John Spellar called Mr Corbyn “the Fuhrer” and said an email to MPs setting out his objections to bombing amounted to a “coup” against the shadow cabinet. IN the absence of this there will still be President Assad, who will remain a sort of recruiting sergeant for ISIS because of the awful acts he has carried out on his own people.
And 59% of those polled thought air strikes against ISIS in Syria would increase the risk of terror attacks in the UK.
Even MPs who share Mr Corbyn’s opposition to air strikes and believe he should whip the vote have expressed despair at his handling of the situation.
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Mr Danczuk says in his column in The Sun that the Labour Party has “reached the point of no return”, adding that “this madness can’t continue”.
