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Orwell was loosely associated with a democratic socialist group in Britain called the Independent Labour Party (ILP). They're obscure but kind of... more radical than the social democrats but never joined the Comintern and they were suspicious of the Soviet-aligned communists.
I think it's fair to say Orwell didn't like communism and saw the USSR as a totalitarian freak regime. The ILP had relations with the POUM which was a Marxist party in Spain that was at odds with Stalinism, and Orwell joined the POUM militia through his ILP connections, and later fled the country as the purges (from the Soviet-aligned communists) decimated the group.
One thing that is consistent with Orwell is that he was a British patriot of the left. He supported Britain during the war when the communists were defeatists because they were loyal to Moscow at a time when the USSR and Nazi Germany had a non-aggression pact. His writings during the war were often on the theme that Britain basically needed to have a socialist revolution to win the war (this turned out not to be true, exactly, although Britain did end up becoming somewhat socialist), that the old-style laissez faire capitalism was on its way out, but that the communists were also hypocritical snakes who used the word "socialism," but the core of their group in Britain were middling intellectuals who felt cramped by the English social system and imagined revolution as a way to set themselves up as a new ruling oligarchy.
